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By FROILAN GALLARDO
Special Correspondent

FOR fear of aftershocks, residents of Wao town in Lanao del Sur spent hours in the cold, outside their homes, after Sunday’s earthquake.

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Wao Disaster Risk Reduction Management chief Francis Garcia said patients from the Wao District Hospital have also spent hours sleeping in tents set up outside the facility.

“Many residents are bracing for the deadly aftershocks and because most houses and buildings here are damaged, they have decided to sleep outside for their safety,” Garcia said.

Garcia said at least nine barangays in Wao have filed reports that 452 houses have been damaged while 31 were destroyed.

He said the quakes have made most of the Barangay Poblacion inhabitable with all buildings either have collapsed or damaged.

Garcia said five persons were reported injured due to falling debris.

“My impression initially that we took a worst hit compared to the April 12 quake,” he said.

The Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao sent a team to Wao to assess the needs of the municipality, and for relief operations, said Armm information officer Myrna Jo Henry.

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